Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones - Softcover

Piché, Sheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532053231 ISBN 13: 9781532053238

Verlag: iUniverse, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

After her dream wedding in France and living the life similar to a princess, all she wanted was the simple life she knew as a child. Chaos and love go hand in hand in this romantic and funny story as Mrs. Jones juggles her busy suburban life between her children and the man of her dreams. How did everything get so out of control? When insanity starts to set in, she is rescued by yet another man, her best friend, Stephen. Together the two embark on a journey to keep her sanity and her secrets while they try to solve her dilemma. She soon finds out she is not the only one who has been keeping secrets. This makes her even more desperate find a solution to her problem. Murder is not an option, even though, Mrs. Sanchez, her willing housekeeper is all for the plot. After rekindling a relationship with her parents and a visit back home, momentum builds as her children uncover the secret she has been hiding. When they become investigators on the case in an effort to force a confession out of her, the children nearly drive her in sane. As the truth unravels and she loses everything, it leaves her wondering if it was all worth the risk.

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Sheryl Pich is a mother, wife, art and digital design teacher, fine artist, graphic designer, and process server. She loves family time, writing, creating art, flower gardening, traveling, gourmet cooking, and spending time at her familys cabin in Atlanta, Michigan. Sheryl lives with her husband, Tony, in Saginaw, Michigan.

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Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones

A Novel Idea, But Don't Try This at Home

By Sheryl Piché

iUniverse

Copyright © 2018 Sheryl Lue Ann Piché
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5320-5323-8

Contents

Chapter One (But Not The Beginning), 1, 
Chapter Two (The Beginning), 4, 
Chapter Three, 9, 
Finally - Chapter Four, 24, 
Chapter Five - A New Life, 28, 
Chapter Six, 33, 
Chapter Seven, 36, 
Chapter Eight - Tall And Sweet, 40, 
This Must Be Chapter Nine, 44, 
Chapter Ten, I Think, 53, 
I Don't Know What Chapter This Is, 90, 
What Chapter Is This?, 94, 
Would Someone Tell Me What Chapter This Is?, 122, 
Who Cares What Chapter This Is?, 126, 
Chapter Fifty, 169, 
Is This Really Chapter Fifty-Two, 174, 
This Really Is Chapter Fifty-Three, 176, 
Chapter Fifty-Four, 180, 
Chapter Fifty-Five, 183, 
This Really Is Chapter Seventy-One, 230, 
Chapter Seventy-Four, 240, 

CHAPTER 1

(But Not The Beginning)

Mary had agreed that Pierson and their three young children should move to France, just outside Paris, as his British parents had retired there. She realized the temporary living situation was important to him and his family despite the fact that she decided she would remain in Chicago. Pierson, having been raised west of London on the Bristol Channel, loved Europe. Even though he had moved to the United States to attend Princeton University after boarding school, Europe still felt like home to him. She realized this, so there had not been much discussion on the matter of relocating.

He had worked hard to build NetWorks, Incorporated, and this flourishing Internet provider service granted them a supreme life style. In addition to being parents and a married couple, they were also business partners, quite affluent, and well known in the Chicago area. The great thing about their business and modern-day living on-line is that one can practically run a business from anywhere, even Europe. With that in mind, it only made sense to them that living in France would be a great opportunity for their children to get to know their grandparents.

After fifteen years of marriage, Mary, at thirty-five, felt that life was passing her by too quickly. It was impossible to put her finger on it, but there was a feeling of distance between them. She and Pierson had talked several times about it, but divorcing did not seem like a practical idea regardless of her fading feelings. It truly would upset his Catholic parents, and neither felt the breakup would be good for the children. Pierson, five years her senior, had his unfavorable moments, but he was usually a good father and husband, and even though their marriage was not the romantic, blissful fun-loving marriage she thought it would be at this point in their life, Mary somehow felt guilty for even thinking about wanting out of the marriage. It felt selfish to yearn for a different life. After all, she really was living like a princess, despite feeling under his control. Frankly, she was surprised Pierson took so well to the idea of her staying behind.

At the time, she thought having a little freedom while Pierson and the children lived in France for the duration might ease her anxieties about their relationship. It seemed like a good idea. While maintaining her life in Chicago, she would be able to travel to see her children and family in Europe anytime she wanted. There was a lot of work to do, after all, and packing their belongings that would remain stateside would take a while.

Eventually, their Evanston, Illinois home was sold to purchase their chalet in Chantilly, France. Early on, Mary rented a small apartment in Chicago where she stayed, the longest, a stretch of six months. Frequent trips to Europe, lasting months at a time, were just what their marriage needed. It seemed there was a little more time for romance.

How strange is it that Pierson can move to Europe, and we are able to spend more time with each other than when we lived together? Mary wondered. Initially, there were times their relationship seemed better than ever, and soon six years had passed.

She was truly glad she was there for him and her children as his parents passed away within a year of each other. This being the case, suddenly, there was no reason for Pierson and the children to live in Europe, and their business was booming with the chance of expansion into global markets making him busier than ever. Mary's task, after a brief stay with the family in France, was to find a home for the family in the U.S. She had given up her apartment a few years prior since she was rarely there. Who needs a permanent address when you can have the mail sent to a post office box?

Six years of traveling to see her family had started to wear on Mary. It seemed she always had jetlag. There were times she felt she was missing too many memories that could be made with the long distance arrangement, so having the family together again in the U.S. would be exciting and nerve racking all at the same time.

It was Pierson's idea to keep the chalet near Paris as a vacation home, and he talked of living there after retirement, so the family's transition was happening very rapidly. Luckily, Mary was able to snatch up a beautiful home on Maple Drive in Glenview, not far from Chicago. The home was just the right size. In addition to the master suite, there was a bedroom for 10-year-old Maxwell to share with his younger brother, Andrew - age eight, while his twin sister, Alyssa, had a room all to herself. There was even an efficiency apartment for Mrs. Sanchez.

To keep their live-in housekeeper was a good idea, Mary and Pierson had agreed. Just the thought of being a full-time mom again with active children and a workaholic husband seemed overwhelming to Mary. Mrs. Sanchez hired on to go to France and live as a nanny and housekeeper with the Jones family when they moved. She had proved to be an asset to their busy family. Though her family was in Jamaica, and she visited them often, she had longed to be closer, so moving the family back to the U.S. was a step in the right direction for her, as well.

The developer, with lack of imagination for this subdivided area, used the cookie cutter approach when designing the homes. The house and yard Mary purchased was a mirror image - the exact opposite - of the house next door. Even the layout inside the home was exactly the same - exactly opposite - with the exception of the efficiency apartment off the back of the house. At least the color scheme of the house had served as a creative release for the builder. The home next door was a generic white-sided structure with black shutters and a dark roof. Mary's home at least sported a light mossy green-colored siding, and the warm earth-tone ledge stone provided contrast near the entrance to the foyer. Mary felt extremely lucky when this house went on the market. She was able to close the deal, and the family moved in quickly upon their returned from France. At the time, she knew there would be a lot of adjusting, but somehow Mary felt it was the perfect spot to unload and raise her family.

CHAPTER 2

(The Beginning)

Robert lived near Deford, Michigan, and worked as a plumber and carpenter in the area. His Christian upbringing was due to his grandmother, who saw to it that he went to the church across the street every Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday to attend mid-week service. It took exactly twenty seconds to walk out the door and sit down in one of the pews near the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1532053231
• ISBN 13: 9781532053238
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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